On Monday, thousands of the ultra-Orthodox community members gathered on the streets of Jerusalem to protest against the calls to draft their young men into the Israeli Army.

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Young men here told CNN that Congolese army soldiers had attempted to forcibly recruit them.

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Another shows young Israeli women and men on the day of their army enlistment.

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It can mean other costs too: German charities lament that young men no longer do community service to avoid the army.

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Now, young Lebanese men were out on the street today to support the army.

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Samuel Nsanzamahoro said that when the battles started coming closer to his home town of Gicanja, soldiers began picking up young men and girls at random, accusing them of being army defectors.

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There was a mix of men, young and old, some in civilian clothes and others wearing army fatigues, BBC Libya correspondent Rana Jawad reported from the scene.

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The average age in the city is 34, and young women from all over Kazakhstan flock here looking for husbands because of the army of single men working in its numerous ministries.

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Kayla Williams, author of the memoir, "Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, " said she thought most of the enlisted men would accept women into combat units.

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